The Defenestrations of Prague

Everything Everywhere Daily

Gary Arndt

History, Education

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Prague is one of the truly great cities of Central Europe. Prague is noted for its preserved medieval and Baroque architecture, the Charles Bridge, Prague Castle, the Astronomical Clock, and its Gothic Old Town. In addition, it has one of the world’s greatest beer and brewing cultures. They also happen to like to throw people out of windows. Learn more about the defenestrations of Prague, why they happened, and their impacts on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Quince Go to quince.com/daily for 365-day returns, plus free shipping on your order! Mint Mobile Get your 3-month Unlimited wireless plan for just 15 bucks a month at mintmobile.com/eed Chubbies Get 20% off your purchase at Chubbies with the promo code DAILY at checkout! Aura Frames Exclusive $35 off Carver Mat at https://on.auraframes.com/DAILY. Promo Code DAILY DripDrop Go to dripdrop.com and use promo code EVERYTHING for 20% off your first order. Uncommon Goods Go to uncommongoods.com/DAILY for 15% off! Subscribe to the podcast! https://everything-everywhere.com/everything-everywhere-daily-podcast/ -------------------------------- Executive Producer: Charles Daniel Associate Producers: Austin Oetken & Cameron Kieffer Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/everythingeverywheredaily Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretrip Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/ Disce aliquid novi cotidie Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Prague is one of the truly great cities of Central Europe.
0:03.0	It's noted for its preserved medieval and brook architecture, the Charles Bridge, the Prague Castle, its astronomical clock, and its Gothic old town.
0:12.0	In addition, it has one of the world's greatest beer and brewing cultures.
0:16.0	And they also happen to like to throw people out of windows.
0:20.0	Learn more about the
0:21.4	de-finestrations of Prague, why they happened and their impacts on this episode of Everything
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1:14.6	Prologue. was that like on any podcast app or at what was that like.com. Prague is without question, the defenestration capital of the world. Most cities never even
1:21.4	have a single major defenestration in their entire history, and if they do, they probably had just
1:25.9	one. But Prague has had multiple
1:29.1	defenestrations. The people of Prague just seem to love a good defenestration. And before I go any
1:35.5	further, I should probably explain what a defenestration is. Defendistration is just a fancy word
1:42.5	for throwing someone or something out a window.
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